Located on oceanfront property in Southern California, Academy by the Sea/Camp Pacific offers a wide range of dynamic programs for students and campers. Program selections include: Academic Enrichment, Academic Credit, English as a Second Language, JROTC Leadership, and Camp Pacific.

During their stay, all students and campers receive specialized instruction in their areas of interest. While portions of participant’s days are dedicated to educational classes and clinics, the remainder is devoted to the pursuit of various leisure and social activities. This schedule format allows time for students and campers to take advantage of new recreational opportunities and build unique relationships with their peers.

Operating as a college-preparatory boarding school for boys during the academic year, during the summer, the campus is transformed into a co-educational environment, hosting a unique mix of students, teachers and camp counselors from all over the U.S. and the world.

Academy by the Sea/ Camp Pacific programming is designed to enrich each participant’s character through academic pursuits, recreational activities, and leadership training.

Adventures Cross-Country (ARCC) offers domestic and international adventure trips in over 15 countries and 5 western states throughout North America, Asia, Africa, South Pacific, Australia, Europe, Central and South America. In addition, ARCC offers Global Action programs that focus on pressing issues affecting local communities and Gap Semester programs that provide an educational and cultural bridge between high school and college.

With 29 years of experience, ARCC students travel to a variety of the world's most spectacular locations and participate in activities such as community service projects, language schools, cultural immersion, backpacking, sailing, SCUBA diving, surfing, rafting, sea kayaking, zip-lining, rock climbing, mountaineering, glacier travel, ice climbing, and more!

Trip destinations include Australia, Fiji, China, Tibet, Thailand, Ecuador, Galapagos, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Zanzibar, Egypt, Spain, Italy, Greece, Turkey, France, Switzerland, Morocco, Costa Rica, Belize, California, Hawaii, Alaska, Utah and Colorado. No experience other than enthusiastic participation is required.

ARCC offers trips in five categories:

1. Global Action: Global Action programs focus on pressing issues affecting the communities we visit. Students participate in a series of studies on important topics, such as interactions between humans and ecosystems, public health, sustainable development and cultural preservation. Merging education and service, students examine the issues from multiple points of view and interact directly with those involved on all sides. Students gain a global perspective on local issues and engage in the learning experience of a lifetime! Programs include: Galapagos Shark Study and Kenya/Zanzibar Wildlife Study.

2. Community Service Adventures: ARCC's Community Service Adventures offer a chance to give something back to the communities we visit while taking part in world-class adventure activities. Service sections include teaching English to local school children, caring for elephants/sea turtles/pandas, and building much needed facilities in rural villages. Adventures in Africa, Australia, California, China, Tibet, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Galapagos, Egypt, Fiji, Hawaii, Morocco, Spain, Turkey, Greece and Thailand. Lodging will be in local guest-houses, small hotels, and occasionally camping.

3. Language & Service Adventures: Language Adventures are international programs where learning a language, exploring the culture, and getting off the beaten path are an integral part of the adventure. Features time at accredited language schools working with native speakers, and working on community service projects. Programs are in France, Spain, and Costa Rica. Lodging is a mix of hotels, hostels, and village-hosted stays. Time not in class will be spent exploring cities and participating in adventure activities like windsurfing, whitewater rafting, surfing and zip-lining.

4. Multisport Adventures: Our Multisport Adventures offer a range of activities like rafting, rock climbing, or sea kayaking, as well as overnight wilderness backpacking in North America and Europe. Curriculum focuses on individual development and group leadership. Multisport Adventures are suitable for both “first timers” and experienced students. Lodging is predominantly camping in some of the most spectacular locations in Alaska, Costa Rica, Belize, Hawaii, Italy, France, Switzerland, Utah, and Colorado.

5. Gap Semester: Adventures Cross-Country's Gap Year Semester Programs offer an educational and cultural bridge between high school and college. The ARCC Gap Semesters are an opportunity to live, work, learn, and explore in some of the greatest classrooms on earth. On an ARCC Gap Semester, students immerse into the culture through homestays, service work, teaching, and exchange. ARCC offers GAP Fall Africa and GAP Spring Asia semesters.

When it comes to unforgettable summers Bold Earth Teen Adventures has been leading the teen adventure travel industry since 1976. Our vision empowers high school students to feel alive, competent and part of a self-motivated team. Enjoy world class expeditions in rock climbing, white water rafting, backpacking, biking, sailing, kayaking, horse packing and service projects. Our hallmark is responsibility, commitment and inspirational leadership. Phone interview and references are required. Join us in Alaska, Costa Rica, Hawaii, Europe, Colorado, Thailand, Fiji, Bali, Australia, England, California, Washington state, Africa and beyond. More locations. More adventures. Trips of a lifetime.

About our School…
The Lycée International de Los Angeles (LILA) - also known as The French American Schools of Southern California - offers programs beginning with pre-kindergarten and leading to preparation for an American high school diploma, a French Baccalauréat or an International Baccalaureate diploma.
We believe in a humanistic approach to education, based on knowledge, skill, and reason across many fields. We attempt to provide our students with a joy for learning that will carry through their entire lives. Our curriculum is based on a combination of the rigor of the French educational system and the American value placed on individualism.
Live an international summer in Los Feliz!
The summer school program runs for 6 weeks: from Monday, June 22nd to Friday, July 31st 2009 serving ages 2 1/2 - 11 years old. The morning focuses on language acquisition through verbal, written and reading exercises. The afternoon is all about fun (still with an immersion in the language!). The camp facility is licensed by the State of California as a daycare center. Previous exposure to the French language is not required; we offer a fun and valuable experience to all children!
The objective of this program is to introduce children to the French language and culture at an early age when they still have a linguistic openness to easily learn a second language. Their adaptability, their lack of inhibition and above all their ability to reproduce any sound accurately will help them learn a second language with great ease. The course is designed to be challenging and fun at the same time. This program encourages the children to work together and progress at their own pace using a structured curriculum with workbooks and other fun activities.
The curriculum promotes the development of speaking, listening, reading and writing skills. In order to achieve fluency, various activities are undertaken in spelling, dictation and pronunciation as well as short writing tasks. The classes are designed for both beginning and intermediate speaking abilities.

Alliance Française de Pasadena will open its doors this summer 2011 to offer French Summer Day Camps to kids and teens! A world leader in teaching French to adults, Alliance Française applies its expertise to children’s classes.
We offer weekly French summer camps between June 20 and July 29, 2011 for 3 different age groups (4-6 years, 7-10 years, 11-13 years) for your kids to be "un petit marionnettiste”, “un fermier” or “un artiste”
Vive l’été! Hooray for the summer!

Abbey Road’s intensive pre-college enrichment and test preparation summer program gives you the necessary tools to compete at the highest level during the college admission process. College admissions classes and seminars are thorough and catered to meet each student’s needs and academic level. The core SAT component of the program is facilitated directly by The Princeton Review.

Experience what it is like to live like a Stanford University student! Stanford’s campus plays host to exciting seminars and workshops led by both faculty members and prestigious outside experts during this pre-college summer program. Gain global perspective on environmental issues and how they are shaping the nature of international relations among prominent experts and developing nations, diplomats, corporations and entrepreneurs!

Spanish, French or Chinese Program:
Come and immerse yourself 100% in another language through music, art, songs, creative movement and games.
A native speaker coach will guide you through a fun filled week of activities that will end in a presentation for family and friends to see!
Make your very own musical instrument, create a piece of artwork, sing a song, build a toy, there is something for everyone and all while you learn a new beautiful language
Musical Instruments Making.
Drums. Chimes. Rain sticks. Join us in making instruments from around the world in this new WorldSpeak class! Each week you will build a new instrument of your very own to take home and play! Now, this is exciting!.
Science Adventures for Curious Campers
Blue Goo? Magic milk? Be a scientist this summer!
Come join us for a fun filled week of hands on science. We will build projects and perform experiments in class to have fun with wind, gravity, speed and friction, attraction of oil and water, weight of air, bubbling portions and others.
All projects built are yours to keep and share with family and friends! By the end of the week you will have expanded your science knowledge, used your creative imagination and performed and built some great projects to keep and pass on!
Toy Making and Science Exploration
Get your hands on toys! Build your own ones! Join us for cool projects and fun things like sand clocks, cars and boats, even your own musical instrument. Every week, you will build and take home a new amazing toy that is totally YOURS from inside out.
Journalism and Photography,
Theatre and Games:
Photography. Come learn the beginning fundamentals of basic photography, this class a must for all aspiring photographers.
We’ll begin with the bare basics about how a camera works, then over the course you’ll learn about how to sculpt your shot, depth of field, to choose point of view. We’ll study landscapes, profiles and portraits.
Students will be given hands on experience with film cameras snapping their own photos.
Games. Do you enjoy playing games? This is a great camp for thinkers and fun practice for analytical minds.
Expand your problem solving and strategic thinking skills while playing Jr. Scrabble, Jr. Monopoly, Jr. Mastermind, Battleship and Chinese Checkers just to name a few.
Journalism. Our news team will write different types of article (reports, analysis, cultural review) on their favorite events - in serious and in FUNNY way. Students will become reporters and interview one another.
By the end of the program you will choose which department of the newspaper you would like to work in, and your favorite specialty.
The result will be a published newspaper done by our News Team.

Yo-Yo Summer Camp Focus on Chinese language reading, writing, and speaking classes in the morning and provide a wealth of activity classes in the afternoon: Go, Ping-Pong, Swimming, Art, Skating, Badminton, Computer. We are proud to provide world renown teachers who are representatives to international tournaments in Go, Ping-Pong, and Badminton.

Global Groove is a unique CULTURAL ADVENTURE CAMP that exposes kids to the most exciting cultural arts, music, dance and culinary traditions as a means of self discovery. This is a place where campers are encouraged to take new risks and ultimately leave with an enhanced sense of self and a new community of friends. We offer activities like Capoeira, Flamenco, African Drumming, Didjirdu, Surfing, Swimming, Guitar, Acting and much more. We have a great Carnival every couple weeks to show off what we are learning, so stop by the check us out or try out a day of this amazing summer experience for free!!! Spaces still available for this nurturing and creative camp! We look forward to talking to you soon!!!